Champions โLeague Matchday 4: Juventus,atletico,andโข Tottenham seek Crucial Wins
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TURIN,ITALY โข – as the UEFA Champions league group stage reaches its midpoint,several key clashesโ on Matchday 4 will significantly impact qualification hopes. โJuventus,โ Atletico โMadrid, andโข Tottenham Hotspur โคall face challenging fixtures as they aim โคtoโ solidifyโ their positions in their respectiveโ groups.
Juventus vs.Sportingโ CP
Massimiliano Allegri is in as the Juventus coach as the team desperately seeks toโ compete for the knockout stage of the Champions League after a poor start. Despite that, โคJuventus are still topโข 4 in Serie A and far from hopeless. Sporting CP’s win over Marseille on the lastโข UCL matchday was impressive and improvedโฃ their chances ofโข knockoutโข qualification. Sporting look highly competitiveโ in theโค Liga Portugal this season as well, 8-1-1 after 10โค games. Juventus will hope Kenan Yildiz can return from injury, Dusan Vlahovic will start as a striker. Colombia’s Luis Suarez is the starboy at the moment for โขSporting andโค a revelation for โขthem asโฃ striker.
Traveling to Turinโ doesn’t make this easy for Sporting,โค but theyโ canโ manage aโ point. Prediction: โ2-2 Draw
union Saint-Gilloise โat Atletico Madrid
Atletico โMadrid sit 4th on the La โฃliga table and have looked lacking โat times in the UCL campaign as โwell. A bigโ win over โSevilla onโ the โคweekend gives confidence though. Union Saint-Gilloise have been dismantledโค by more expensive teams this season. David Hubert is inโค as manager (as โคMonacoโค hired Sebastian Pcognoli). The USG โside has a lot of firepower and has three straight wins overall.
Alex โBaena โขsettingโค up โgoals for Julian Alvarez willโ be the focal point for Atletico, who have a more talentedโ lineup, โbut could stillโฃ trip up โagainst a punchy USG side.Playing at home, expect Atletico to find it more comfortable. โPrediction: Atletico Madrid โ 3 Union Saint-Gilloise 1
FC Copenhagen at Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham โHotspur’s performanceโ over the weekend against Chelsea was nothing shortโ of terrible.โฃ The Spurs are struggling to produceโ goalscoring opportunitiesโฃ and have โฃbeen passengers under the leadership of Thomas Frank in โฃtoo manyโ games this season. Playingโฃ at home against a โCopenhagenโข squad they โare โขsimply better than on paper, expectations and tension are high.
Spursโข recently crashed outโ of theโข EFL Cup, and a brief burst ofโ form under Frank has now created storm clouds at the Hotspur โstadium. Coenhagenโ have consecutive โคdomestic wins ahead โof this game, while Tottenham have lost two, but only โTottenham haveโค a UCL win this season.
Lucas Bergvall and a number of other Tottenham players are injured includingโฃ Dominic Solanke. Rodrigo Huescas โand at least four other best XI players for Copenhagen are also injured.โ Copenhagen โdevelops some talented players, but Tottenham are defensively โคsound,โ the challenge is whether Xaviโฃ Simons and co. canโฃ find the back of the net or โif Spursโค fans will be left frustrated by a dire draw. Prediction: โค Tottenham 1 Copenhagen โ0
Main Photo โCredit: IMAGO/ Xinhua
